New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-27
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
A GLANCE AT THE LTH CONGRESS AND IT'S
MAKEUP.

yeseect ana Senators in the Lth Congress presents
some curious features. One member is White ;
another Brown, while still another is GRAY. Inc
greatest variety of temper and disposition Is repre-
sented. One man is Gay, another Bland, another
Crisp, another Wise. One is Long AID one IL Hale
There should be danger OF the Lth Congress
starving for there to be- found IN 1t oates, ana
Rice and Bacon not to mention big Cobb III the
House, q welldeveoped Berry in the Senate, and
though there is so far but Hogg among the 4Ol
statesmen chosen, the prospect OF several DINERS
turning up later on is promising 10 satisfy tne
bibulOus there IL, sorry to note but one 1lass
and little Peel and the proper spirits are
apparently wanting, though Glass and Peel could
possibly furnish both Ii not there is a Butler and
Stewart who may Many trades represented.
Th9re is Baker Fisher, Weaver II COofer, Ma
SON. q clover a a Hunter Miller, Brewer Granger,
Turner. Taylor, and a Sawyer. There are many
"men." too among the members of this Congress
Tillman Merriman FREEMAN, BoOthman, Herman,
Holman Chapman, Sherman. The great trio OF jones,
Brown and Robinson is, tor once, broken there are
Joneses and Browns, but not a single Robinson was
returned. As an Offset TO this however, there are two
Smiths and Thompson with a"p." Presidential
are represented by Washington, Adams,
Taylor, and Hayes the Washington being the first OF
his name to sit in Congress and hailing no, from
Virginia, as might be expected but from Tennessee
Other historic names found in the list Lee,
Mason and Breckenridge. Maine sends a Reed, by
no means slender weak Illinois Post and
Cannon the latter having made sad havoc among the
enemy in former Congresses. when touched oil.
Maryland Rusk and Missouri and Kentucky
Stone each both OF them very unsatisfactory speci-
mems indeed. Texas Turn shes with the
culinary and suggestive OF KilgOre, but a
token of peace accompanies him with an Abott ind
Hare. One member at least in each house of the
National Legislature when it next meets will be
Plumb tlough the House goes the Senate better,
as it were aud produces Fuller. There is
Lodge and Hall to be had in the next Congress,
well as a Lane with a Walker thrown in. The XVIlth
Pennsylvania District is represented by Scul, while
the Representative OF the AlNth District is Bound
The State Missouri is represented in the Senate by
II Vest. Virginia has is Games IN the next House
mostly the Republican side and Wisconsin its
Price. There il certain suggestiyeness-a serial
story almost--in the names Baukhead Burrows,
owen Dunn ana Morrow. The New-York delegation
carries Bliss into the next House along with Flood
Fol many years the letter has been unrepresented
in Congress this time it can boast OF two Names
Yoder aud Yost Texas sends Coke OF very poor
quality. The Macs and The O's" are well repre-
sented there being ten OF the former and tour OF the
latter There 10 but one Patrick " who has the
courage to print his full and that is " Pat y
Collins. Curious baptsmal names abound, for in
stance, Jehu. Iii airy. Adonlrlm, knnte. Cherubusco
Beriah and Wety. BesiCe such picturesque names
the Johns and Williams Georges and Ghomases shrink
INTO utter nn-igpifcanee though they mold their own
IN point oil numbers by large majority
There are many ola army men stitOncu IN W ash
iugton who were CLASSMATES OF the artist Whistler
when he was cadet at West Point. All describe
him rs extremely lazy Young ielo", inattentve in
his studies and derelict in his duties But he was
nways popular, though he at times affected certain
Mrs of excusvene,s His failure 10 pass the exam-
nation and his being dropped from the rolls were no
surprise to those who knew him. lie, probably, was
the least concerned about the matter. The discipline
OF a mitar, school must, TO young man of his turn
Of mind. have proved rksone IN the extreme.
At that time Whistler spoke several languages
Aucntly especially Russian. In fact he had been
partly educated in Russia His father who had been
an officer ia the United States Army lett it at the
request OF the Car Nchoas to and in the construction
of the railway between Moscow and st. Petersburg
believe he died in Russia, but before his death he
had managed to secure his sons appointment to West
Point.
Young whistler was lost sight of By his comrades
for several years after leaving the Academy He
afterwaid turned up Paris where an old aoquaint-
ance OF his whom | met the other day, saw him.
Whistler was the od incident talented and &c
centric chap that he had been here-a regular Bohe-
man. lie would pant only when in :he humor," or
when the shoe began TO pinch. Then he would sit down
end do the work OF weeks IN many days. His friend
described 10 me the artists menage. When Whistler
had sold one OF his pictures at u handsome figure he
would rent and furnish, without regard TO cost, the
first choicest floor in OF those large Hat houses
in which Paris abounds. As money became scarcer
and that was pretty soon histler would move
his traps 10 the next floor above where the was
q little lower. After those apartments became too
expensive he would still higher, until finally
he landed underneath the root. Then, after living
rather vcgetatng, in this manner for some tme he
would pull himself together once more paint again,
and with the proceeds the sale begin operations in
another house and upon similar principle. In those
days he liked to entertain his bachelor friends who
s;l tell very queer stories about the artists
unconyer ona mode of living. lie might have sat
arafah aa In do
Boheme' Since then. / told, he has greatly
changed
Mr. sebbns the banker from New York. was in the
CITY the other day 10 consult the Treasury people in
regard TO The winding uD of the affairs OF Western
bank in which he is interested Mr. Stebbi~s. | am
told went to Dakota about twelve years ago with
capital OF S2j, 900. lie is worth about 100000
and has yearly income from that sum OF about
$50 900. His money was all made IN the banking
business His first bank opened top of dry
goods box and his safe was an ordinary leather sache
lie is interested i'll more than u dozen Dakota
banks.
In the excitement occasioned by the discovery of fire
in Mrs. Frances llodgson Burnetts house tie other
day, and among the disorder and confusion which
ensued, little Lord Fauntleroy,' the authors son,
lost his set-possesson-at least he thinks he
didn't After all, this Young gentleman, whom his
mothers book has made famous did 10 more perhaps,
than hundred grown Gen would have done under
similar trying circumstances. While the excitement
was at its height, lay lord procured step ladder,
took il into the parlor. and removed blue glass globe
from OF the chandeliers, regardless OF the many
valuable pieces OF brica brac strewn about the roon
and bore it triumphanty TO place OF safety. The
intention all right. OF COURSE it was ouly the
judgment that at fault. The mothers
accomplished not without difficulty by newspaper
respondent and a colored man living the neigh
borhood Mrs Burnett was found lying on a bed IN
her room. utterly Frustrated. Wrapped in q piano
cover aud with the correspondence overeoat thrown
around her shoulders, she was lifted and carried to
neighbours house where she remained until all danger
was passed. The houJe damaged more by the |
water than the fire. 1t had only recently been com
plotcd.
Another of Washington's old landmarks is doomed
Orders have been given to tear down the house Mt
Fifteenth and | SITS, opposite Chamberlins we'll !
known hostelry. For the last few years II has been
occupied as a hotel and boarding house. but its his
torical associations all antedate the war OF tine Re
beion Early in the iiitics. think it was built by
Commodore Montgomery, ut that time in command OF
the Washington Navy Yard subsequently II was
nccnnicd Howell Cobb. Secletary VI the III easury